Body camera footage captured the moments when a man running for Florida governor was arrested in Flagler County after allegedly battering elderly victims.<\/p>\n
Kevin Cichowski, 46, was charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, two counts of battery on a person over 65, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, tampering with a witness, and two counts of robbery by sudden snatching.<\/p>\n
According to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office, on Friday, deputies received reports that a man attacked two elderly victims at a home, hit one with a cane and threw a cellphone at the other, and he allegedly was armed.<\/p>\n
One of the victims, who called deputies, said that Cichowski also threatened to kill them and would also kill law enforcement if they arrived, deputies said.<\/p>\n
When deputies arrived at the home, they found the two victims hiding in a bedroom and told them they couldn’t leave because one of them was bedridden. They were then escorted out of the home.<\/p>\n
Deputies then made their way to get Cichowski.<\/p>\n
Body camera footage shows deputies pointing their weapons at Cichowski as they ordered him to get on the ground.<\/p>\n
Cichowski was then placed in handcuffs and taken to a police cruiser.<\/p>\n
While he was being taken to the detention facility, deputies said Cichowski made suicidal statements. He was then Baker Acted.<\/p>\n
This wasn’t the first time Cichowski has been in trouble with the law.<\/p>\n
Back in 2024, he was arrested for domestic battery, domestic battery by strangulation, and false imprisonment.<\/p>\n
Cichowski also previously ran for Palm Coast Mayor in 2021.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen responding to a situation where a suspect has a weapon and has threatened to kill the victims and law enforcement, it\u2019s critical that we do everything we can to safely de-escalate the situation and quickly rescue the victims from immediate danger,\u201d said Sheriff Rick Staly, in a statement. \u201cI commend our deputies, RTCC analysts, and the 911 dispatchers for working together for a safe resolution and arrest the suspect before the situation escalated to a violent ending.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Body camera footage captured the moments when a man running for Florida governor was arrested in Flagler County…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1009,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-229877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-caught-on-camera","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}